[ecrea] 'Normality and Disability: Intersections Among Norms, Law, and Culture' - special issue just out

New Special Issue

Normality and Disability: Intersections Among Norms, Law, and Culture

Continuum vol. 31, no. 3
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/31/3?nav=tocList
 Edited by Prof Gerard Goggin, Dr Linda Steele and Dr Jessica Robyn 
Cadwallader
 Hotly contested, normality remains a powerful, complex category in 
contemporary law and culture. What is little realized are the ways that 
disability underpins and shapes the operation of norms and the power 
dynamics of normalization.
 This pioneering collection explores the place of law in political, 
social, scientific and biomedical developments relating to disability 
and other categories of ‘abnormality’. The contributors show that/how 
law produces cultural meanings, norms, representations, artefacts and 
expressions of disability, abnormality and normality, as well as how law 
responds to and is constituted by cultures of disability.
 The collection traverses a range of contemporary legal and political 
issues including human rights, mercy killing, reproductive technologies, 
hate crime, policing, immigration and disability housing. It also 
explores the impact and ongoing legacies of  historical practices such 
as eugenics and deinstitutionalisation.
 Of interest to a wide range of scholars working on normality and law, 
the special issue also creates an opening for critical scholars and 
activists engaged with other marginalized and denigrated categories, 
notably contesting institutional violence in the context of settler 
colonialism, neoliberalism and imperialism, to engage more richly and 
politically with disability.
  Table of Contents
 Introduction: Normality and disability: intersections among norms, 
law, and culture
Gerard Goggin, Linda Steele and Jessica Robyn Cadwallader
 Fit or fitting in: deciding against normal when reproducing the future
Roxanne Mykitiuk and Isabel Karpin
 Eccentricity: the case for undermining legal categories of disability 
and normalcy
Karen O’Connell
 Eugenics and the normal body: the role of visual images and 
intelligence testing in framing the treatment of people with 
disabilities in the early twentieth century
Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle
 The construction of access: the eugenic precedent of the Americans 
with Disabilities Act
Stephanie K. Wheeler
 Disability and torture: exception, epistemology and ‘black sites’
Dinesh Wadiwel
 Mental capacity and states of exception: revisiting disability law 
with Giorgio Agamben
Penelope Weller
 Not just language: an analysis of discursive constructions of 
disability in sentencing remarks
Frankie Sullivan
 Policing normalcy: sexual violence against women offenders with disability
Linda Steele
 The government is the cause of the disease and we are stuck with the 
symptoms’: deinstitutionalisation, mental health advocacy and police 
shootings in 1990s Victoria
Piers Gooding
 Disruptive, dangerous and disturbing: the ‘challenge’ of behaviour in 
the construction of normalcy and vulnerability
Leanne Dowse
 Making the abject: problem-solving courts, addiction, mental illness 
and impairment Claire Spivakovsky and Kate Seear
 Cripwashing: the abortion debates at the crossroads of gender and 
disability in the Spanish media
Melania Moscoso and R. Lucas Platero
 ‘Figurehead’ hate crime cases: developing a framework for 
understanding and exposing the ‘problem’ with ‘disability’
Ryan Thorneycroft and Nicole L. Asquith


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